Journal · Paris
A first night at a Paris cabaret
How to choose between the Crazy Horse, the Moulin Rouge and the Left Bank revues, and what to book.
Choose your style
The Crazy Horse is the connoisseur's choice: short, artistic and intimate, in a small theatre off avenue George V. The Moulin Rouge is the spectacle, with a large company, feathers and the cancan, and it attracts a broader audience. Paradis Latin, on the Left Bank, sits between the two and is the oldest of the great houses.
Show or dinner?
Dinner-and-show packages start earlier and cost more, but guarantee better seats. If you only want the show, take a later performance and arrive twenty minutes early for the champagne.
After the show
The 8th arrondissement's gentlemen's clubs are a few minutes from the Crazy Horse. Keep the jacket on: door policies there are strict.